The recent victory at the Battle of Antietam provides United States President Abraham Lincoln the political capital to make public what he has long known he must do (and what the South has long warned that the “black president” will do): begin the formal emancipation of African slaves. Today Lincoln takes the first political step…
The day after the bloodiest day in the war, the sun dawns on an apocalyptic scene in and around a small Baptist church near Sharpsburg, Maryland. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s invasion of Maryland has turned into a disaster of unimagined proportions. Some 12,000 soldiers lie dead or dying in a cornfield, as the Confederates…
In and around the yard of a pacifist Baptist church, the bloodiest one day battle in American history unfolds today: the Battle of Antietam. Built in 1852 by German Baptist farmers, the Dunker Church on a hill near Sharpsburg, Maryland houses a peace-loving congregation of six to eight farm families. There is nothing peaceful about…